Monday, December 21, 2009

Winter Holidays

Zilker sing a long
Mrs. Ornes and Mrs. Scheib showing off holiday cheer


holiday party for Mrs. Ornes Owls

































Mrs. Ornes' brother in law who is a education major came to observe and work with the kids.


One of our dads was our guest reader last week.



Circle of Lights performance

they played holiday music from around the world


The Owls were able to get front row seats for the circle of lights performance
















Friday, December 11, 2009

Health and Nutrition


Walking field trip to Mr. Natural's to visit a kitchen and learn about nutrition

Students were able to sample smoothies


Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Monday, November 30, 2009

Thanksgiving cont....

Our Thanksgiving books
Our school counselor Ms. Feldmann came to our class to work on a lesson in cooperation.


Our guest reader

Show and tell day!




Thursday, November 19, 2009

Thanksgiving week/performance

Parents enjoying our classroom

Well deserved desserts after a wonderful performance!

Waiting for desserts


Ready to perform in our Indian outfits

Foot and hand turkeys
Ms. Lucy helping out with our foot and hand turkeys

On Tuesday the theater department from Bowie High School performed "Winnie the Pooh"
they did a wonderful performance.

Making our "Happy Thanksgiving" sign

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Native Americans Unit


We used a view finder to look at insects and bug!

Coloring Teepee's

Making Totum Poles

Decorating indian vest

We hosted a leopard gecko in our class for two weeks. He was very shy at first but after the first week he started to make more appearances.

Making indian vest with parent volunteers.

Friday, November 6, 2009

Week 11- Spiders and Ecology


During WOW time this week we went out to the basketball court and wrote the colors that we know. The students did a great job writing out blue, red, orange, yellow and green! Ask them to sing you the color songs!




Practicing our letters and sounds with the ABC rainbow

Leaf rubbing project

Guest reader this week!

One of our parents did a leaf rubbing project with our class, it was great fun. The leafs are on display outside our classroom.

We have started reading groups and are having a lot of success with recognizing words.

Math mats!
reading at center time

Friday, October 30, 2009

Week 10- Pumpkins/Halloween


The Monster Mash the day before Halloween

We danced and danced


A wonderful parent brought us spooky treats and drinks!

The boys dressed up for halloween

The girls all dressed up for halloween

Kindergarten team all dressed up for Halloween

One of our students and the art teacher Mrs. Petit are both dressed as Cleopatra.

Our wonderful guest reader this week!

Making our Pumpkin Pumpkin books.

Our first girl to turn 6!